Justine Lynch is an artist, mother, dancer, and acupuncturist.
In 1977-78 Justine Lynch performed with Batya Zamir one of the founding post modern choreographers of the 70’s. She was 8 when she felt the possibility and passion inside of performance. Justine was raised on the streets of the New York arts scene.
She received entrance in late auditions to La Guardia H.S. graduating in 1988. And received her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase 1992. She performed as a founding member of Dance by Neil Greenberg from 1991-2006, with roles made for her by the choreographer in the seminal work Not About AIDS Dance. Her career as a dancer also included performing with Sarah Rudner and Roseanne Spradlin, Jennifer Monson and Paige Martin among others. Justine was one of the endurance performers in The Artist Is Present by Marina Abromovic’ 2010 at MOMA.
Justine received her Masters in Acupuncture from MUIH in 2003 and began to weave her study of Taoist medicine into her relationship with her work as an artist. In 2008 Justine Lynch became a student of Laura Stelmok, a Master of Acupuncture and Taoist Medicine. She has a private practice in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Justine’s work, Middle of Man, sought to move between these worlds of Taoist medicine and performance. Middle of Man, an acupuncture point as performance, was seen excerpted in 2008 at Movement Research for Judson Church and performed in full length in 2009 at The Kitchen. Odilon Swan an exploration of symbols, was also performed at movement Research for Judson Church 2011.
In August of 2011 Justine became a mother of twin girls who have been her creative project for ten years time. Mothering and her work as an artist are not separate.
Coming full circle, Justine is currently training with her esteemed teacher Laura Stelmok. Justine is committed to the training of her muse as dancer, mother and artist with a hope to respond to the need of our time.
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[Image Description: Black and white photo of Justine Lynch looking into the camera attentively in a dance studio. She has one arm supported on a surface in the foreground of the image.]
